Thread: STM rates VM expect you to keep to
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Old 19-06-2008, 00:10   #20
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Re: STM rates VM expect you to keep to
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Originally Posted by TraxData View Post
People are not asking to be able to download all the time are they?
It's not a question of "all the time" but "at the same time" as I wrote.

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They come home from work, they want to play a few demos, listen to a few streams, do the odd update...and for this, they get stm'd and classed as an "abuser" that's beyond unfair, it's downright atrocious.

That's what a normal user does these days, VM know this thus give them pathetic stm limits as a way to "force" them to upgrade to 20mbit which they dont need as they rarely download just like to do normal things, but they have no choice, win win for VM, lose lose for customers.
No choice but to upgrade to XL?
How about reducing what they download during the STM hours?
How about putting up with the STM'd speed reduction for a few hours after they've completed their downloads?
Alternatively they could always dump VM and switch to Be/O2 but I'm sure they'll have some form of traffic management before long...

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VM's finances are fine, they are currently doing segment splitting on the network ready for docsis3, the matter here is they dont want customers to actually use any bandwith which they are paying for, and you can hardly say VM are in bad financial state when the bosses keep getting an extra 100k bonus every year.
Paying a few over-inflated bonuses to over-important (and in my opinion, completely useless) execs doesn't change the reality of their finances. And they're bloody awful!

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You still dont get it, do you? people pay for a higher speed connection to get files faster, it's as simple as that, your not gonna pay £37/month to download files slower, patience? you dont need it, you have a high speed connection, you get your file fast, but now you dont, they make the download times nearly 4 x longer than it needs to be, sorry but that IS appalling, of course if you enjoy all day stm each to their own but VM's service is fast becoming pretty much useless, especially in 2 area's where overnight STM in play.
Your exaggerations are laughable, mate.
In another thread, I estimated that even allowing for overnight STM, an XL connection would still be able to download 115GB over a 24-hour period at an average rate of 10Mb/s. If that's "pretty much useless" then we'll see huge numbers of customers dump it in next quarters statistics.
Hopefully VM will learn their lesson and cancel the 50Mb/s service too.
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